Search form

Ramanatham Memorial Meeting: Position Papers

This is PUDR's position paper presented during 33rd Ramandham Memorial meeting on 8th Sep 2018. The paper is based on some of the investigations carried by PUDR over the years related to globally intergrated industries in the region - such as automobile industry at Manesar (Haryana), consumer electronics such as LG and Vivo phones (Greater Noida), garment workers in...

PUDR’s opposition to the penalty of death is three decades old. Like everything else our opposition on capital punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to the arbitrariness inbuilt in awarding Death Penalty, the fact that almost all death row convicts have come from lower echelons of society convinced us of...

This document was prepared by PUDR on the occasion of 25th Ramanthan Memorial Meeting, dated 11th September 2010.
In 2007 Peoples Union for Democratic Rights had brought out a report on the exploitation of construction workers at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Soon after, as construction work started at a massive scale all over the city for the Commonwealth...

This document was prepared by PUDR on the occasion of Dr. Ramanthan Memorial Meeting, dated 6th September 2008.
The last twenty years have witnessed a sustained attack on the working class and workers’ rights in India by both capital and the state. Certain practices and tendencies became more obvious by the 1990s. Most of them were not new, but the fact is they have been...

This document was prepared by PUDR on the occasion of Dr. Ramanthan Memorial Meeting, dated 15th September 2007.
The dubious practice on injecting drugs such as scopolamine, sodium amytal and sodium pentothal has been practised and discarded by a number of countries over the last century, it has been prevalent in India for only half a decade. However it is gaining...